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title: "sora no method+eva & the ultimate question: part 1"
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published: 2019-07-15
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ok so this is probably going to be a longer post than usual but i'll be adding
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some pictures to add some ***colour*** and **spice** to keep things interesting.
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also i'll be talking about `shin seiki evangerion` *aka* `neon genesis evangelion`
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as well as a lesser known gem so i hope you don't get bored halfway through. i
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may even make it a 2-part blog post. that could be fun.
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# **おkー始まりましょう！**
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## where to begin…?
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i started writing a post on **7月7日** which was much closer to when i finished
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`eva` but i'm actually rather glad i didn't get too far with that. i've had time
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to think about it and let the show sink in now (as well as do some basic
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research i had been avoiding so as to keep safe from spoilers). speaking of
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*spoilers*, i need to write my feelings about them in the future. also, for
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reference, i did not watch using netflix's subs for various reasons. i did watch
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the last official sub release, though, because fansubs that live up to my
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standards either don't exist or are too much of a hassle to find (similar to
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`jojo` come to think of it; at least s01).
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> i mean, sure, asuka's expression is golden, but… why post it here and now?
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**an excellent question!** and one answer is we are talking about ***subtitles***
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and i can't help but wonder what was going on with the episode names at the end.
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*(ok also if you want to know i have a lot of pictures i want to use in my post
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and most of my pictures i have at my disposal right now are screencaps of some
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of the later `eva` episodes and some delightfully <em lang="ja">萌え</em>
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`sora no method` animations)*
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i mean, i bet she made that expression after seeing this:
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![ai=愛=love… or does ai=i here?][endone]
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![and of course in english…][endtwo]
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[endone]: /images/lastepisode-name1.png "the beast that shouted アイ at the heart of the world"
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[endtwo]: /images/lastepisode-name2.png "take care of yourself"
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ok i'm going to be honest here. i spent *way too smegging long messing with
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[expletives removed] html and css and markdown because they are **[even more and
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exponentially more offensive language removed]*** so in short this is very
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likely to be more pictures than actual insights. i was blogging to relax myself
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but as soon as i realised there was something i could do i didn't know about i
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inevitably started messing with things and breaking them and researching web
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shit that i didn't need to know and ***now?*** well, now i'm just smegging
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hungry. so i'll be back to writing more (hopefully) when i've gotten something
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to eat.
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in the meantime,
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also, ever wonder why asuka, who's german, has kanji in her name? i mean, the
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things separating her from the japanese are her bombastic personality, the fact
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she has three names, and *maybe* her height and colour of her hair and skin if
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you are selective enough in the people you compare her with and your methods of
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doing so. her having trouble with kanji and japanese which are more things that
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the viewer is told than actually witnesses (**most of the time**) i guess could
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also count.
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> dude get something to eat you have no direction with anything you're saying
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> and you aren't even fact checking yourself. ***eat!***
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yah, ok fine. before i do, i thought i should link [more info about the japanese title i showed earlier][wiki]
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for anyone interested.
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[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_episodes#cite_note-6 "tl;dr the アイ was written in katakana deliberately to add ambiguity"
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now that my food is heating up, let me lay out the questions i hope to answer
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in *part two* of this blog post. first: i will address what **the ultimate
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question** is and why i think `sora no method` and `evangelion` are worth being
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talked about in the same blog post. oh and before i go any further, i realise i forgot
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to state this disclaimer sooner: i have only seen the `eva` *series* so far. i
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have not seen `end of eva` or any of the other films. just throwing that out
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there.
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> one *final* note: i know the date on this is wrong now. but i'm not changing
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> it.
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ok **stay tasty, everyone**, and i'll see you in either *part two* or a filler blog
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post if i don't feel like writing *part two* for a while.
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